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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Storage Management–File Server Using VMM 2012 R2

Still recall the concept of Hyper-V Over SMB feature? We’ve talk about it in previous article. With Windows Server 2012, we allowed SQL Server database and Virtual Machine to store in file shares over SMB 3.0 protocol.

It is not recommended to use Hyper-V and SMB to store VM configuration & VHD on the same physical machine as this will create a loopback. Therefore, please separate both into separate machines.

How do we manage the storage via System Center Virtual Machine Manager? In the past, we are not able to, but with VMM 2012 R2 (Preview) we can do classification, create file share and use to run virtual machine.

Let have a look on how to add your 1st File Server

1. Go to Fabric | Storage | Provider and select Add Storage devices

2. On Select Provider Type page, select “Windows based file Server”

3. On Specify Discovery Scope page, enter FQDN of your single file server or Scale Out File Server name and Run As Account which has full right on the file server.

During discovery, VMM will scan and make sure it has File Server roles installed

4. If you’ve configure file share, VMM will display and allow you to set Classification.

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Lai, (MVP for Cloud and Datacenter Management) has more than 16 years of IT industry experience. He specializes in Hyper-V, System Center and Microsoft Azure products. Lai has actively presents Microsoft Virtualization Day, Microsoft Cloud Day, Microsoft Tech-Ed New Zealand (2011), Microsoft Techday 2011(Singapore) and local community. He actively blogs on Virtualization and System Center at
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